I adore my precious twosome, but this teething thing . . . ugh! Right now they are trying to rearrange the living room – it truly is amazing what a one year old is capable when you multiply that by 2!!!!!
I simply must say though that trying to keep up with two wiley one year olds can make one feel a little nuts sometimes! The things they do . . . . the training they need . . . the discipline . . . you get the idea. I don’t know if it is multiplied by two or if it is more equivalent to more since every time you talk to one about something not being OK, the other thinks it is their turn and on and on it goes. They look you in the eye and run right back to the naughty, then they stand there and laugh at you or collaborate even more naughtiness – oy!
Oh, then you throw a very strong-willed three year old into the mix and wow! I do understand why our little surprises came as a set of 2 though! If there was only one of them they would be trampled, pushed and tormented, but as a pair they are able to do all of that to him. It is truly amazing to watch this in action.
Sir Lion (Son4) is the type of kid that NO ONE messes with, he can pin The Beaver (Son3) in a Heartbeat – keep in mind that they are 4 years apart in age. So when I saw the babies taking Sir Lion on one evening about a week ago I was very interested to see what would happen.
It was a very strange evening and Sir Lion had taken a very late nap and was eating a sandwich at about 8pm (this NEVER happens around here – truly an oddity). He insisted that he absolutely could not be alone in the kitchen to eat so we told him he could eat at the kids table in the Living room, but that he’d be better off in the kitchen since the babies would think he should share. We went along with it since all of the older boys were in bed. Well, he was a little whiny from it being such a weird late nap and he wasn’t really eating the sandwich, just sort of guarding it.
The babies decided that they HAD to have this sandwich and him trying to keep it from them just made it a game. He was whining about them coming after his sandwich and after a time Hubby and I noticed that the babies were using a strategy. One would distract him and the other would swoop in grabbing at the sandwich. You know, the whole divide and conquer thing. It was totally working though, a couple of times they would get a little piece of the sandwich and Sir Lion would wail about that.
I have to say that although Hubby and I were very sympathetic to the pathetic Sir Lion we were both laughing hysterically when he wasn’t looking because this is the first time in his life that ANYTHING has been able to get his goat!
In the end, guess who got the sandwich . . . that’s right The Peas – heehee! It truly was an amazing process and in the end their distract and swoop technique prevailed! It was like watching a couple of birds of prey. I think we must be easily entertained because this was the highlight of our week! It actually turns out that Sir Lion wasn’t hungry anyway and just needed to cuddle and go back to bed, but I think he learned the first of possibly many lessons about taking on The Peas – we’ll see!
Well, that’s all for now . . . until next time.